Funny: Google Maps can’t find Europe, Africa, or Asia. It does find America (but thinks it’s only North America). It does find Australia. It finds most countries, and most cities for the countries that have street data.

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Just happened: I added an event to my Google Calendar and added the location in the where field. The calendar picked it up and added a link to Google Maps. On the map I learned the name of the building and its website address. On the website I learned its office hours.

You need to update your code if you wish to get new features of Google Maps (see API Documentation). Thus, you’ll get European street names in your FOAF geolocation tool, which will be great to add geolocation to one’s profile !

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I'm a software engineer at TopQuadrant. I work on web technologies for managing data and am based in Dublin, Ireland.